Screen-door brace.



P. BEYLER.

SCREEN DOOR BRACE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. 1915.

1,175,586. Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

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an intermediate transverse bar 6.

PHILIP IBEYLER, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

SCREEN-DOOR BRAGE.

Application filed June 26, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP BEYLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screen-Door Braces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an adjustable brace for screen doors, which may be easily and quickly applied to the frame, and adjusted so as to take up the sag of the outer portion of the door, which usually sags after a considerable period of use, due to the frail construction and skeleton formation thereof.

The brace is particularly adapted for applic-ation to the door after the sagging thereof has occurred, and by adjustment of the means provided for the purpose, restore the frame to its proper shape, as well as to hold the hinged bar of the frame and transverse bar under which same is positioned against separation.

The invention in the preferred form of details will be described inthe following specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation of a screen door frame with my improved brace applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved brace.

Referring by numerals to the different parts illustrated in the drawings, 1 designates a skeleton door frame of the usual construction for screen door purposes, the screen fabric. notbeing shown for the purpose of clearness of illustration. The frame comprises longitudinal bars 2 and 3, and transverse end bars 4: and 5, forming a rectangular frame which is customarily strengthened and braced, as by means of Obviously the particular form of the frame is immaterial, a conventional form being shown and described only for the purpose of making more clear the inherent weaknesses of such frail construction, and the resultant sagging of the outer portion thereof in course of time.

The brace consists of an angular bracket comprising arms 7 and 8 disposed at right Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. id, 1916.

Serial No. 36,548.

angles with each other, and having screwholes 9, l0 and 11, for the reception of screws or other fastening means for secur ing the bracket to the hinged side 2 of the frame, and to the under side of the upper transverse bar & thereof, as shown in Fig. l. Screw-threaded through the outer end of the arm 8, is an adjusting bolt 13 provided with a flattened head portion 1st serving as a grip for manipulating the bolt. A diagonal brace member 15 extends from the arm 7 to the arm 8, as shown, so as to provide a rigid bracket structure. In the application of the brace the screw 16 is applied before manipulating the adjusting bolt, a slight play being allowed between the screw-head and the brace arm, the object of which is to prevent separation of the frame at the joint in manipulating the bolt to raise the sagged outer portion of the frame, the screw being tightened after the frame has been so raised.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that I have provided an exceedingly simple and effective device for the purpose intended; that the same may be easily and quickly applied, and, owing to its simplicity of structure, does not appear unsightly, the same being scarcely noticeable when applied to the upper end of the frame.

hat is claimed is The combination with a screen-door frame, of an angular bracket adapted to fit into a corner of the frame, means for securing the bracket to both the side and end bars forming the corner of the frame, whereby the inner end of the end bar will be held against separation from the side bar, and a screw-threaded bolt passing through one end of the bracket for contact with the end bar at a point remote from the means securing the bracket to said bar, whereby the outer end of the end bar may be raised upon manipulation of said bolt without releasing the means securing the inner end of the end bar to the bracket.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' PHILIP BEYLER.

Witnesses:

L. M. HAMMERsMrrH, GEORGE J. OLTSCH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

